How does Hill define reality TV? Describe his definitions in
the context of a contemporary Reality TV show.
Reality TV means verbatim reality TV. It`s like a real
world TV not including star actors, fiction, any story, such as dramas or movies, but actual story of humans. These days, reality TV becomes a wide range
of audiences among a lot of male and female. Goodari (n.d.) states that, today,
reality TV includes a wide range of audiences’ age, from 16 to 49 years male
and female. This current fad has made reality TV as more familiar to us.
According to Hill (2005), there is no exact definition
about the reality TV, because the reality TV is composed of various genres such
as variety show, drama, opera, sport, and so on. These genres have merged
together to create a number of different genres that fall under reality TV.
That is, reality TV is a catch-all category that includes a wide range of
entertainment programmes about real people. Reality TV is located in boundary
line, between entertainment and information, drama and documentary. Reality TV can
also be called hybrid genre taking thematic elements from drama programs,
romance from soaps, competition from games shows and visual style from
documentaries. I think that reality TV is also called as the most postmodern of
TV genres, because it`s new genre only in these modern days.
Furthermore, Hill (2005) says that if there is at
least one defining characteristic existence, then reality TV is ready to go on
the air for audiences. Even if much reality programmes are now set up without
script and story, they can just let show into their life and personalities on
screen.
There is a lot of famous reality TV shows in the
world. For example, American got talent, dancing 9, Survival, millionaire matchmaker
and so on. In this opportunity, I would like to introduce a couple of Korean
reality TV shows. Firstly, the one of the most famous reality TV in Korea is ‘Super
Star K’. Super Star K is similar to ‘American got talent’ and ‘dancing 9’. This
is kind of audition show. Many various classes people participants as a challenger to become a singer. There is no script and story only sings a song by given
mission. The other famous reality TV is ‘Human story’. This programme
introduces the ordinary human story, ‘how to succeed’, ‘how to get over’, ‘how
to live’, etc.
References
Hill, A. (2005) The reality genre. In A. Hill, Reality TV: Audiences and Popular Factual Television. (pp. 14 –
40). Oxon: Routledge.
Good. Thanks Kevin.
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